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• Update on the Corniche Development Project at Luxor

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 133
  Image via Wikipedia The 10-month Corniche Development Project has been designed by Ain Shams University’s Faculty of Engineering and is being implemented by the army. It is budgeted at LE250 million, LE150 million provided by the Tourism Development Fund and the remaining LE100 million in the form of a ...
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• BDS is the new anti-Semitism

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  The issue of targeted boycotts against Israel are growing by the day (see here and here ). Muzzlewatch documents just the latest sign of panic within the Zionist establishment in the US. No answer to Zionist expansion and racist policies in Israel? Not to worry, just retreat into a bubble and hope the occupation ...
  7 hours ago

• All Palestinians around the world must decide the future

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  British based intellectual Ghada Kharmi, who last visited Australia in 2007 , writes that the Palestinian national struggle is facing a seminal moment in its history . Take care, she writes, the future is being written now: The divergence of opinion and the ferment of ideas are indications that at this critical ...
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• The Israeli Terror by David Rovics

  
  propaganda press! freedom now — Authority: 134
    I was in Olympia, Washington driving towards Evergreen State College when I got a phone call from someone in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. An Evergreen graduate named Rachel Corrie had been killed a few days before by an Israeli soldier in an armored bulldozer, and someone with an Australian accent on my ...
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• Liberal, Zionism prevarication allows occupation to continue

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV) , which I co-founded in early 2007, continues to hum along and we have many plans for 2010. A few weeks ago in the Australian Jewish News one-time journalist Michael Visontay – who has form in hand-wringing matters, sometimes feeling terribly pained about something ...
  12 hours ago

• Australian Zionist figure repeats anti J Street propaganda

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  Dr Ron Weiser, immediate past president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, has written before about the supposed threat J Street poses to Zionist aggression. Here’s his latest gem , again on J Street and his seeming inability to understand why growing numbers of young American Jews are questioning Israel ...
  13 hours ago

• Palestinians Return to Bir al-’Id

  
  The Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine — Authority: 104
  One of the most significant developments in south Hebron, which happened few weeks ago, is the rehabilitation of Bir al-’Id – once the biggest cave dwellers community in the area, and in recent years, an abandoned place (forcibly evacuated exactly 10 years ago under the Barak government), completely deserted ...
  14 hours ago

• Caine Mutiny in the West Bank

  
  OneJerusalem.com Israel News Blog Feed — Authority: 128
  It has long been controversial for modern Orthodox Jews (or ‘dati leumi’) to serve in the IDF, because it sometimes means that they have to do things that they are not only politically opposed to, but religiously as well. We really saw this in 2005 at Gush Katif and the dismantling of other settlements in the ...
  15 hours ago

• Love of the Land: Amnestys travesty

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 164
  Amnestys travesty Martin Sherman Guest Columnist:JPost 19 November 09 The Israeli occupation changed local agriculture profoundly. It introduced modern technology, including mechanization, precision tillage, pest control, plastic covering of crops for temperature control, high yielding varieties, postharvest ...
  18 hours ago

• Palin wants The Rapture (at least somebody realises)

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  Following Sarah Palin’s recent comments that illegal, Jewish settlements should expand in the West Bank (in a clear reference to the Second Coming), a former Australian Liberal Party MP Ross Cameron today challenges her on this : American policy for the past 40 years has discouraged Israeli settlements in the ...
  18 hours ago

• At what point will J Street realise that Israel isn’t democratic now?

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  J Street head Jeremy Ben-Ami debated the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee David Harris on CNN earlier this week. They disagreed on some key points (Harris believes Israel can solve the conflict on its own while Ben-Ami believes only Washington can) but this comment by Ben-Ami was the strongest ...
  20 hours ago

• Video : Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian School Children

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 481
  According to the Sky News report, these bedouins, whose village is occupied by settlers are currently living in caves: The soldiers do not always turn up and they only escort the children some of the way , leaving them exposed to the risk of further attacks. School Run Security For West Bank Children [Sky ...
  23 hours ago

• Israel’s Netanyahu Slaps Peace & US Across The Face

  
  Better World Movement — Authority: 144
  Visit www.TheYoungTurks.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.comIsrael’s Netanyahu Slaps Peace & US Across The Face is a post from: Better World Movement Israel’s Netanyahu Slaps Peace & US Across The Face is a post from: Better World Movement
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• Israel-Palestine: Peres Says Settlements Halt When Peace Talks Start

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 618
  On Sunday, Israeli President Shimon Peres met with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak in Cairo. Peres stated that Israel was ready to stop settlement construction in the West Bank as soon as negotiations with Palestinians started: The minute we shall start to negotiate there won’t be new settlements, there ...
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• Jews who want to hug Hamas, get in line, peoples

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  I missed this news a few weeks ago ( thanks to Promised Land for picking it up) that a majority of Israelis favour some kind of negotiation with Hamas: Israelis don’t oppose negotiations in general – but they don’t feel an urgency to negotiate as well. Things are OK right now, so for all they care, they ...
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• Obama ignores the hundreds of thousands of illegal colonists

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  Zvi Bar’el in Haaretz unpacks the lacklustre American efforts to bring “peace” to the Middle East: And let’s say Israel does freeze construction. What is Washington’s policy regarding the 300,000 settlers currently living in the territories, in settlements that no American president was determined ...
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• SAVING HUMAN LIVES AND OLIVE TREES IN PALESTINE

  
  Desertpeace — Authority: 580
  By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD Today over 150 Palestinians and internationals participated in an activity to reclaim and plant olive trees on a threatened hill in an area called Um Salamuna.  Um Salamuna already lost significant amount of its land to colonial Jewish-only settlements like Efrata and Migdal Oz. The ...
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• God gave us all of it so bugger off, says Zionist

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  The land of Israel and Palestine is all ours, Jerusalem Post writer Michael Freund argues . Why? Well, he’s given us the best reason imaginable; the dude in the sky: Israel should move ahead with steps to formally and legally incorporate all of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria into the Jewish state. ...
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• The shocking human rights carnage in the Middle East

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  Israeli human rights B’Tselem publishes the facts: Today (Sunday, Nov 22nd), Israeli human rights group B’Tselem commemorates 20 years since its founding with release of data collected by the organization from 1989-2009. This period includes many of the main events of the first Palestinian Intifada, the Oslo ...
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• How do Palestinians build a state with 500,000 Jews in the way?

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  Two recent articles in the Israeli press indicate the direction some of the Middle East debate is moving. Praise the “moderate” Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad while ignoring the ever-growing colonies in the West Bank. We should always be suspicious when occupiers praise the occupied: First, David ...
  2 days ago

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